ADF Desktop Integration Designer Task Pane Using the Bindings Palette

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5.3 ADF Desktop Integration Designer Task Pane

Figure 5–2 displays the ADF Desktop Integration Designer task pane. Figure 5–2 ADF Desktop Integration Designer Task Pane You can invoke the ADF Desktop Integration Designer task pane through launcher buttons available in the bottom-right corner of the Workbook and ADF Components group on the Oracle ADF tab, as illustrated in Figure 5–3 . Figure 5–3 ADF Desktop Integration Designer Task Pane Launcher Buttons Publish Publish the Excel workbook after you complete the integration between the Excel workbook and the Fusion web application. For more information about publishing an integrated Excel workbook, see Chapter 14, Deploying Your Integrated Excel Workbook. Design Tip: For quick and easy access, you can add Oracle ADF tab buttons to the Excel Quick Access toolbar. Table 5–1 Cont. Oracle ADF Tab Options In this group... Click this button... To... Mode when the button is available... Getting Started with the Development Tools 5-5 Table 5–2 lists the view tabs and links that appear in the task pane, provides a brief description of each item.

5.4 Using the Bindings Palette

The bindings palette presents the available Oracle ADF bindings that you can insert into the Excel worksheet. The page definition file for the current Excel worksheet determines what Oracle ADF bindings appear in the bindings palette. Figure 5–4 shows a bindings palette populated with Oracle ADF bindings in the ADF Desktop Integration Designer task pane. Note that the bindings palette does not display bindings that an integrated Excel workbook cannot use, so the bindings that appear may differ from those that appear in the page definition file viewed in JDeveloper. Figure 5–4 ADF Bindings Palette in the ADF Desktop Integration Designer Task Pane You use the bindings palette in design mode to insert a binding. When you attempt to insert a binding, ADF Desktop Integration inserts an Oracle ADF component that references the binding you selected. ADF Desktop Integration also prepopulates the Table 5–2 Overview of ADF Desktop Integration Designer Task Pane Task Pane UI Element Description Workbook Properties Click to display the Edit Workbook Properties dialog. This dialog enables you to view and edit properties that affect the whole workbook. Examples include properties that reference the directory paths to page definition files, the URL for your Fusion web application , and so on. Worksheet Properties Click to display the Edit Worksheet Properties dialog. This dialog enables you to view and edit properties specific to the active worksheet. An example is the file name of the page definition file that you associate with the worksheet. About Click to display the About dialog. This dialog provides the version and property information that can be useful when troubleshooting an integrated Excel workbook. For example, it provides information about the underlying Microsoft .NET and Oracle ADF frameworks that support an integrated Excel workbook. 5-6 Desktop Integration Developers Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework properties of the Oracle ADF component with appropriate values. For example, if you insert a binding, such as the Commit action binding illustrated in Figure 5–4 , the property inspector for an Oracle ADF Button component appears. This Oracle ADF Button component has values specified for its ClickActionSet that include invoking the Commit action binding. To insert an Oracle ADF binding, select the cell to anchor the Oracle ADF component that is going to reference the binding in the Excel worksheet, and then insert the binding in one of the following ways: ■ Double-click the Oracle ADF control binding you want to insert. ■ Select the control binding and click Insert Binding in the ADF Desktop Integration Designer task pane. A property inspector for the Oracle ADF component that is associated with the binding you attempt to insert appears. In some instances, you may be prompted to select one Oracle ADF component from a list of Oracle ADF components where multiple Oracle ADF components can be associated with the binding. After you select an Oracle ADF component from the list, a property inspector appears.

5.5 Using the Components Palette